[Event] Van Gaalen's Dirt Fest

[GrootSeun]

Event Name: Van Gaalen's Dirt Fest
When: 22 November 2013 - 24 November 2013
Where: Van Gaalens Cheese Farm, Hartbeespoort, North West
Category: MTB

Entries open 29 September

 

 

 

General Info

 

 

 

The idea behind VG's Dirt Fest is to offer a jam packed weekend of of Mountain Biking for the whole family. This race will be different, it has a Night stage, Segment stages, XCE event and a Marathon. Eric has put together routes that's not overly technical but fun, fast, flowing and perfect for anybody who wants to try out a stage race. Dad, mom and the young ones can do the whole weekends stages, that's a promise! This is the perfect race for 14 years+ as they are able to ride all three days. Goodie bags, proper water points, demo bikes, great prizes, massages, special spa packages, kids entertainment, awesome medals and great riding awaits riders.

 

 

 

Kidz Zone

 

 

 

The only problem with the KidZ ZOne will be to get them back in the car. We have built a funky obstacle course for the young ones and organized lots of extra activities for them for the whole weekend. It will be supervised by people who do kids events every weekend. We'll also a special Night Frisbee game happening the friday night after the night stage.

 

 

 

Routes

 

We know that everyone has been riding hard, tuff, super challenging routes at Van Gaalen lately. So we've decided to put together the best routes for the event and not necessarily the hardest ones. Also a brand new concept will be the segment stages! 6 stages will be timed separately, climbs, single tracks, descents and a flat sprint! This will be fun!!! You can ride with your buddies, race the segments, and then ride together to the next one! Lot's of bragging rights up for grabs...There will also be a FREE XCE race on the Saturday after the Segment race for those who want to give it a go!

 

 

 

THE BEST PART OF ALL...A WEEKEND ENTRY WILL ONLY BE R450.

 

 

Want to know more...

http://www.trinitycycles.co.za/

 

 

 

 

 

Go to Event Page

[kosmonooit]

Any hints on the 60k route on Sunday?

 

 

[staalburger]

We will do the 60km route tomorrow morning. sorry for the delay, had to sort out some land owner issues.

 

 

 

The other 2 days are up on the site!

 

 

 

http://www.trinitycycles.co.za/#!route/cs05

 

 

 

 

 

 

[staalburger]

60 km up, we had to cut out one section (pomp huis). this will be included on the Sunday. the route is definitely 60km. after the rain last night the route is looking super!

 

 

 

 

[flyluis]

Wow! so i stopped at VG last night on my way home from work and was soooooooo jealous!!!! the night stage looked like so much fun and looked like the people enjoyed themselves!! great job!

[Acre]

What a fantastic weekend it's has been, very affordable and not far from home. The timed-segments format on Saturday was great fun and very social in between each stage. A big thank you to the organisers and the sponsors and I certainly hope the event will grow and continue into the future.

[Swift01]

awesome fun and as twinpiston said, the times segments was a blast. Looking forward to next year.

 

Does anyone know where the photo's might be?